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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
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Nonfiction
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Technology
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Computer Science
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4.55 |
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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Biography
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True Crime
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121.3K
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4.54 |
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Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
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Space
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Robert Kurson
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11.0K
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32.2K
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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey
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4.49 |
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A Man on the Moon
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Childrens
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Middle Grade
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4.44 |
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Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
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2017 |
6.6K
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4.42 |
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Bad Blood
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John Carreyrou
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272.9K
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4.41 |
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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John Carreyrou
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272.9K
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Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster
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Classics
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Biography Memoir
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Memoir
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Will Harlan
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3.0K
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4.36 |
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Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code
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Childrens
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Mathematics
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4.36 |
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The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
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Science
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Nonfiction
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Chemistry
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Thomas Hager
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2008 |
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4.35 |
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The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
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Patricia Valdez
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Science
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Audiobook
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4.33 |
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Politics
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Middle Grade
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Art
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4.32 |
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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Natural History
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27.8K
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A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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Fermat's Last Theorem
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Nonfiction
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Popular Science
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4.30 |
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Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
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Koko's Kitten
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4.30 |
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Adventure
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Biography
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Maritime
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1998 |
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4.30 |
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Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
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Audiobook
Gene Kranz
|
2000 |
10.0K
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Nonfiction
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Mathematics
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Popular Science
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Biography
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Historical
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History
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Science
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Audiobook
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Biography
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Medical
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38.8K
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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Atul Gawande
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51.0K
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4.28 |
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The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster
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Space
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Biography
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Audiobook
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American History
Kevin Cook
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2021 |
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Nonfiction
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Biography
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Physics
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Memoir
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Autobiography
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History
Richard P. Feynman
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210.4K
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Flight: My Life in Mission Control
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Nonfiction
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Biography
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History
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Science
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Memoir
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American History
Christopher Kraft
|
2002 |
1.2K
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Nonfiction
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Biography
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Physics
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Memoir
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Autobiography
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History
Richard P. Feynman
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210.4K
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4.27 |
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
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History
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Anthropology
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Biography
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Science
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Sociology
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Race
Charles King
|
2019 |
2.3K
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4.26 |
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Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
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Nonfiction
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History
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Popular Science
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Philosophy
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10.2K
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4.26 |
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The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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History
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Physics
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Biography
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Psychology
William Egginton
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2023 |
1.2K
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4.26 |
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What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
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Science
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History
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Nature
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Audiobook
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Biography
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Environment
Kim Cross
|
2015 |
2.2K
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4.25 |